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ABC Eyes A New ‘Muppet Show’ By Angie Han/April 3, 2015 10:00 am EST Following their triumphant return to the big screen, the Muppets are ready to return to their home turf: television. ABC is developing a reboot of The Muppet Show, with the pilot presentation expected to shoot this month. Get all the details on the Muppet Show reboot after the jump. TV Line reports Bill Prady and Bob Kushell will write and executive produce the Muppets TV reboot, with the latter also serving as showrunner....

After Years Of Waiting, ‘Deadpool’ Is Now Filming By Germain Lussier/March 20, 2015 6:00 am EST Deadpool will be released February 12, 2016 and below you can see the Deadpool movie filming images. Here are the images from the Deadpool set via Twitter: Sometimes the bad guy isn’t the villain. pic.twitter.com/Mk86LQXlPa — Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) March 19, 2015 Deadpool, directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T....

Comic-Con 2015: First Look At The Dark Knight’s Gadgets From ‘Batman V. Superman’ By Ethan Anderton/July 9, 2015 8:30 am EST Comic-Con is officially underway here in San Diego, and Preview Night kicked off the pop culture convention last night giving us an early look at what all your favorite movies, TV shows, comic books and more have to show off. There’s plenty of cool sights to see on the show floor, but perhaps as a tease of the goodies to come from Warner Bros....

Did You Catch These ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Easter Eggs And Comic References? By Ethan Anderton/May 11, 2016 5:00 am EST Now that Captain America: Civil War is in theaters and millions around the world have seen it, we can start digging into the finer details of Marvel Studios first film in Phase Three of their cinematic universe. This was quite the big sequel for the Captain America franchise, so much that it surpassed the entire domestic box office of Captain America: The First Avenger in just three days and nearly doubled the opening weekend of Captain America: The Winter Soldier....

LOL: Watch Conan’s ‘Steve Jobs’ Parody ‘Michael Dell’ By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2015 7:30 am EST This weekend brings the premiere of Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the iconic co-founder of Apple. But not all tech company CEOs are quite so revered. In last night’s episode, Conan unveiled its own tech biopic, Michael Dell, about a boring, indifferent founder who offers inspiring slogans like, “Don’t think different. Think same.” Watch the Steve Jobs parody Michael Dell after the jump....

Mystery Woman No Longer In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ By Angie Han/April 13, 2015 7:15 am EST Marvel hasn’t been shy about sharing Avengers: Age of Ultron footage, but some of the clips have raised more questions than they’ve answered. One major mystery from the second trailer was the identity of a certain briefly glimpsed female character. The Internet was immediately flooded with theories, some more plausible than others. Well, as it turns out, we no longer have to worry about her....

NBC Orders ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Drama ‘Emerald City’ To Series (Again) By Angie Han/April 15, 2015 2:30 pm EST Most shows have to air and get cancelled before they can get resurrected. But Emerald City is special — it has died and come back to life before broadcasting a single episode. NBC has given the Wizard of Oz-based drama a 10-episode straight-to-series order, after scrapping an earlier 10-episode straight-to-series order last year....

Neil Patrick Harris, Lily Rabe To Guest Star On ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ By Angie Han/Oct. 30, 2014 8:30 am EST Elsa Mars’ act is bringing in some very interesting people. Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka (HIMYM fans may know him as Scooter) have just signed on for guest roles on American Horror Story: Freak Show, while Lily Rabe is set to reprise the role of Sister Mary Eunice McKee from American Horror Story: Asylum....

Netflix Reveals First Teaser For ‘Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp’ By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2015 2:00 pm EST Netflix is preparing to party like it’s 1981. The streaming service has released the first teaser for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a prequel to David Wain’s 2001 cult comedy hit. Watch the Wet Hot American Summer Netflix trailer after the jump. Netflix unveiled the new promo on YouTube....

Paul Feig’s ‘Ghostbusters’ Casts Neil Casey As Villain By Angie Han/July 7, 2015 11:00 am EST Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters already has four fantastic heroes lined up, in the forms of Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. But a hero is nothing without a villain, so now Ghostbusters has picked up one of those as well. Neil Casey has just been cast as Rowan, the main antagonist of the film....

Peter Berg To Direct Rihanna Documentary By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2015 9:30 am EST Peter Berg cast Rihanna in his film Battleship, and now he’s going to direct a documentary about her. With producer Matthew Goldberg, Peter Berg recently launched a new production outfit called Film 45, which will create “non-scripted and branded entertainment for film, TV and other platforms.” One of the first productions from the company will be the Rihanna documentary… and it will be based on a film about Bob Dylan....

Review: Whit Stillman Does Jane Austen In Laugh-Out-Loud Hilarious ‘Love & Friendship’ By Angie Han/May 13, 2016 6:00 am EST Note: With Love & Friendship in limited release this weekend, we’re re-running our review from the Sundance Film Festival.Jane Austen may have a reputation as a romantic, but I’d argue that her real forte is as a humorist. She’s second to none when it comes to elegantly written, sharply observed comedies about the foibles of England’s upper classes, combining a wry, biting wit with a genuine sense of affection for the characters she’s created....

Superhero Bits: Suicide Squad, Ant-Man, Kingsman, Gotham, Captain Marvel, Agent Carter By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2015 5:00 pm EST Who is voicing Gamora and Yondu in the animated Guardians of the Galaxy series? Does Matthew Vaughn agree with the Kingsman: The Secret Service controversy? Which character is Jay Hernandez playing in Suicide Squad? Will Quicksilver be back in X-Men Apocalypse? Did Kevin Smith enjoy The Marvel Experience? Did someone 3D print their own Ant-Man helmet?...

There Is Only One Cut Of ‘Snowpiercer,’ Which Opens Wide This Week By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2014 4:30 pm EST Sometimes the wrong news gets traction. The story that Harvey Weinstein wanted to cut a big chunk from Snowpiercer got a lot of attention, and for good reason. The story made people angry; it’s the sort of thing that really lodges in memory. We covered the follow-up, reporting that the film would be released uncut in the US....

VOTD: Max Landis’ Short Film ‘Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling’ By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2015 10:30 am EST Every week, at least twice a week, World Wrestling Entertainment puts on a TV show. There’s never a rerun, there’s a huge cast of characters, and it’s all performed live without a safety net. And unless you’re a fan, it’s hard to explain that the matches aren’t always why we watch. We watch for the drama....

VOTD: This ‘Pacific Rim’ Anime Series Isn’t Real, But It Should Be By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2016 4:30 pm EST After facing some uncertainty over the past eight months, Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures have Pacific Rim 2 making some progress towards becoming a reality with Daredevil showrunner Steven S. DeKnight stepping up as director instead of Guillermo del Toro. That gives fans something to look forward to, but we’re not going to get too excited until the sequel is actually in front of cameras....

Watch ILM’s ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Visual Effects Reel By Germain Lussier/Dec. 30, 2014 7:00 am EST When done correctly, you never even think of the power of digital effects. You sit down, you watch a movie, and you let the story wash over you. You never once think about the crazy amount of work that went into it. When you finally do step back and look at the incredible work and detail put into every single frame of every movie you watch, it’s staggering....

Will Smith’s Football Movie ‘Concussion’ To Open Christmas Day By Germain Lussier/Jan. 28, 2015 7:30 am EST Now that Mission: Impossible 5 has moved into the Summer of 2015, Sony Pictures saw an opening. And in that opening, they placed a brand new Will Smith football movie. Previous just referred to as the “NFL concussion movie,” Sony has officially titled the film Concussion. It stars Smith as the doctor who discovered the traumatic head injuries a life playing professional football causes, and proceeded to blow the whistle on the operation....

‘A Hologram For The King’ German Trailer: Tom Hanks Gets A Second Chance In The Desert By Jack Giroux/Feb. 15, 2016 3:30 pm EST We haven’t heard much about A Hologram for the King over the past two years, which is when we got our first look at Tom Hanks in the film. Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel began shooting in March of 2014. It was surprising when the film didn’t premiere at any major film festivals last year, but perhaps Tykwer was afforded the right amount of time to properly finish his upcoming project....

‘Creed’ Sequel: Will Ryan Coogler Direct? Could Carl Weathers Reprise Apollo Creed? By Jack Giroux/Jan. 5, 2016 1:00 pm EST Following the success of Creed, it’s been confirmed we will see a sequel, but it’s only a matter of when. Find out more about the Creed sequel after the jump. Coogler is likely to direct Marvel’s Black Panther next, so where does that leave his involvement in future Creed films? Speaking with Variety, Stallone had this to say about his involvement:...